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Curtiss, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Benson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85630. It stands on Slavin Wash. The Survey maps it on the Saint David quadrangle.

Curtiss within Cochise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Curtiss between 1992 and 2015, burning about 283 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePOST
9 June 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.9 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMESQUITE
7 June 2009Smoking1.3 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHILLTOP
6 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeCOTTONWOOD
6 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeRIPARIAN
3 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeCURTIS WASH
27 June 1995Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Curtiss: 7 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Bentonite, Diatomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Industrial Management Corp PumicePumiceOccurrence
Mammoth TungstenTungstenProspect
Bentonite MineBentonitePast Producer
Bentonite MineBentoniteUnknown
Curtis DiatomiteDiatomiteProspect
LandGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Land DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceGypsum
Post Ranch DiatomiteDiatomitePast Producer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Curtiss in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Flash FloodCurtiss$5,000SR-80 was closed at Apache Powder Road due to flash flooding. A few pieces of asphalt broke off into the flow as water over-topped the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Cochise County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Saint David1.6 miles21
Escalante Crossing1.9 miles21
Fenner5.9 miles21
Benson6.7 miles21
Boquillas7.8 miles21
Contention8.1 miles21
Pomerene8.5 miles21
Tully8.8 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24394. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.